The Last Servant of Braebyrn by Penny Ely

Author:Penny Ely [Ely, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Lois had finished her breakfast, and was reading over his shoulder by the time he finished. She stood back, needing to get some space to breathe and figure everything out. The final few words of the most recent diary entry had sent a blush rising through her cheeks. God, reading that with Benton after last night…

She pushed the thought to one side. There were more important things than that right now. None of it made sense; the forced nature of it all. Of course, back then it was the custom, but it still left her uncertain. Was this her great-grandmother's diary? Had they ever really loved each other? It seemed so, from what had been written after the fact, but was that written by the same person? Lois sighed and rubbed her eyes, tired of staring intently at screens, and her head was getting tired of trying to make sense of all of this. She was almost certain it was her great-grandmother's diary, after finding this one when the next she’d kept had mentioned on the first page that she’d left the last one in BB. It couldn’t just be a coincidence.

She moved around the table and looked at Benton, wondering what he thought. She knew that it was selfish, but she needed a second opinion on what this situation looked like. To her, she was having a hard time telling whether this romance between her great-grandparents was real or not. The plaguing thoughts of whether or not they truly loved one another mattered to her more so than she’d previously thought. What if everything her family had built, everything they’d worked for, the hardship, pushing through the bad times to keep the factory running, her father working until his heart gave out — what if it had all started with some sort of desperate, last hope attempt to catch a husband? What if it wasn’t love, if it had never been love? What if it was all just lust?

He noticed her watching him and looked over. “Something wrong?”

“It’s just a lot to take in. Finding out about all of this. About my grandparents,” she sighed, “If this is even my great-grandmother’s diary, that is.”

“Come on, let’s take a walk, it’ll help you clear your head.” He helped her find her coat and they walked out, up the drive together, passing the rows of trees that surrounded it, as from the distance, the sound of the workmen echoed over the empty lawns.

As they reached the house, he looked up, surveying the work that had been done and anticipating the work that they had yet to do on it.

At least something was on track; the roof repairs were underway and going along merrily. At the moment it reminded her more of a sort of patchwork quilt than any sort of neat looking roof. There would be no blending the line between where the old tiles met the new ones. Although they had been a close match to the original style, they lacked the decades worth of being battered by the elements.

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